"One cannot live without love."
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Geoffrey Firmin
Yvonne Firmin
Hugh Firmin
Dr. Vigil
Senora Gregoria
Brit
Quincey
Bustamante
Gringo
Dwarf
Chief of Gardens
Chief of Stockyards
Chief of Municipality
Maria
Diosdado
Cervantes
Few Fleas
Sinarquista
Latin Consul
Chicken Lady
Transvestite
Concepta
Matador
Don Juan Tenorio
Doña Ines
Bus Driver
Passenger
Dead Indian
Horseman
Second Horseman
Herr Krausberg (German Attaché) (uncredited)
(uncredited)